HURRICANE SANDY

Superstorm Sandy hit the East coast Monday night, October 29 with a vengeance as larger than the usual high tide surge of water aided by the Full Moon added to the damage and misery. When daylight arrived on Tuesday, millions along the US East Coast faced life without power or mass transit, and huge swaths of New York City remained eerily quiet. This megastorm was a thousand miles wide. The US death toll keeps climbing, as many of the victims were killed by falling trees. The storm made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening as well, were hurricane force winds cut power to more than 8.2 million across the East and put the presidential campaign on hold just one week before Election Day. New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart closed for two days. The storm that was 1000 miles wide caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of the city's subway system, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it could be four or five days before some of the biggest US transit system was running again. "This was a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced," Bloomberg said. But the full extent of the damage in New Jersey was being revealed as morning arrived. It not only brought high winds, water, but fires, gas leaks, and snow in the higher elevations. Emergency crews fanned out to rescue hundreds. A hoarse-voiced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave bleak news at a morning news conference: Seaside rail lines washed away. There was no safe place on the state's barrier islands for him to get to. Parts of the coast are still under water. "It is beyond anything I thought I'd ever see."

I follow the U.S. chart for the signing of the Articles of Confederation which happened on November 15, 1777 12:45 PM in York, Pennsylvania. The inner chart below is a relocated 2011 Solar Return chart for Washington D.C. with the the Full Moon chart on the outside. With most of the planetary emphasis on the east side of the chart tells us that the East Coast would get the brunt of this event. Although it was so massive that even Cleveland on Lake Eerie, and Chicago on Lake Michigan felt its wrath. Some of the stressful transiting aspects were Mercury(winds) in a fire sign squaring Neptune in a water sign (water and hospitals having to be being evacuated-lack of gas -diesel fuel leaking ). Pluto T-squares the 5th and 11th house cusps. All normal activities stopped, like schools, the stock markets and governmental functions. Mars conjuncts the S.R. Mercury and opposes transiting Jupiter greatly exaggerated the size of the storm. In fact one of the recently built subway systems may take many months to reopen, as the salt water has ruined the electrical systems as well as many other systems. This will be a humongous job! S.R. Uranus (electricity- unexpected) in the 4th house opposes transiting Venus indicates that thousands lost their power, while for others, their homes and other material things were demolished. The S.R. Jupiter opposes transiting Saturn on the 6th (post traumatic stress disorder) and 12th house cusps (tears and sorrow). Finally transiting Uranus squares S.R Pluto in the 2nd house tells us that this catatrophic storm will cost billionsof dollars to restore and rebuild this enormous area!

Another thing to point out is the S.R. Mars at 2 Virgo 33 squares the natal Moon U.S. which is at 2 Gemini 44, and the S.R. Moon at 27 Cancer 40 (food)was coming up to opposes the natal U.S. Pluto at 28 Capricorn 01. People had to throw away thousands of pounds of spoiled food.

A few weeks ago, I posted an article about the important transits that were coming up in the U.S. chart I follow: the one for the signing of the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, show above. I felt that Jupiter would represent Judge Brett Kavanaugh. As transiting Jupiter at 21 Scorpio was forming a T-square to the 1st and 7th house cusps, as well as being reinforced by progressed U.S. Venus, he was under tremendous criticism and unpopular. The transiting Moon (women) then in Leo was at the midpoint of the U.S. and progressed Jupiter: explaining the opposition of many groups of protesting women. The transiting Sun was at 12 Libra was squaring the U.S. natal Mars at 12 Capricorn, showing that the much of the public was opposed to group who was in power (Capricorn). However, as I pointed out, as soon as transiting Jupiter passed that and came up to trine the U.S. 6th house cusp and the progressed U.S. Sun at 21 & 22 Cancer, the tide turned in the Judge's favor and he received enough votes on Oct. 5th, and was confirmed today, October 6th: as transiting Jupiter reached 23 degrees of Scorpio to conjunct the U.S. Sun in the 9th house.